EXTRAS – FIRST MILLENNIUM WAR
“… Years pass back and forth,
Mingled worlds above the sky,
Days pass across land;
Falling at the sea,
Turn to ash against the waves,
Ocean falls nothing;
Mountains reach freely,
Tranquil peace to leave once more,
Slumber of lost ruins;
Darkening passion,
Last farewell resigned to fate,
Fearing in past;
Expanding armies,
Holding breath on dual sides,
Time flows slowly;
People in silence,
Empty all without answers,
Herald another;
Women in whispers,
Now you go of memories,
Stories told truthful;
Invoking omens,
Little griefs among lost hope,
Challenge without end...” – Records of Ancients (2:19-43)
“… Tower of Babylon, the eternal structure, which I founded and built. I have completed its magnificence with silver, gold, other metals, stone, enameled bricks, fir and pine. The first is the house of the earth’s base, the historical monument of Ancients; I built and finished it. I have highly exalted its head with bricks covered with copper. We say for the other, that is, this edifice, the house of the seven sides of the Only-Dimension. A former king built it, but he did not complete its head. Since a remote time, people had abandoned it, without order expressing their words. Since that time the earthquake and the thunder had dispersed the sun-dried clay. The bricks of the casing had been split, and the earth of the interior had been scattered in heaps. the great god, excited my mind to repair this building. I did not change the site nor did I take away the foundation. In a fortunate month, on an auspicious day, I undertook to build porticoes around the crude brick masses, and the casing of burnt bricks. I adapted the circuits, I put the inscription of my name in the portico. I set my hand to finish it. And to exalt its head. As it had been done in the Ancients' days, so I exalted its summit…” – Nebuchadnezzar II
“… The outer wall is the main defense of the city. There is, however, a second inner wall, of less thickness than the first, but very little inferior to it in strength. The center of each division of the town was occupied by a fortress. In the one stood the palace of the kings, surrounded by a wall of great strength and size. A square enclosure two furlongs each way, with gates of solid brass; which was also remaining in my time. In the middle of the precinct there was a tower of solid masonry, a furlong in length and breadth, upon which was raised a second tower, and on that a third, and so on up to eight. The ascent to the top is on the outside, by a path which winds round all the towers. When one is about half-way up, one finds a resting-place and seats, where persons can sit for some time on their way to the summit. On the topmost of the tower there is a spacious temple, and inside the temple stands a couch of unusual size, richly adorned, with a golden table by its side. There is no statue of any kind set up in the place, nor is the chamber occupied at night by anyone but a single device, which is the dark energy itself…” – Herodotus
